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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

it's only racial profiling if it comes from the racial profiling region of france. otherwise it's sparkling reasonable suspicion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 3d

“Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator.”

Australian researchers have clearly rejected the institutionalised transphobia of the Cass Review. Trans folks should not be ignored in political or medical decisions about their healthcare.

Australian report says UK’s Cass review should not guide transgender healthcare

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

qnews.com.au

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Ian Rapley @irapley.bsky.social · 3h

The photographer here has clearly had an absolute whale of a time.

LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 14h

Charles Amos is the legalise incest guy. Insane they didn't do due diligence. www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 3h

Wow.
Just wow.

LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 14h

Charles Amos is the legalise incest guy. Insane they didn't do due diligence. www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 11h

GB News is not a commercial media company. It is a far-right propaganda outlet that does not even try to operate on profit/loss terms, but is paid for to the tune of tens of millions of pounds a year by its rich extremist backers.

If it wasn't it would have shut down long ago.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h

GB News pay party political leader Nigel Farage over half a million pounds. The TV channel pays him five times his MP salary - and as much as his other 11 further external jobs put together
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Anarchist Art Ⓐ @anarchistart.net · 3h

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 5h

Feels kinda like high school again but all the appearance-obsessed jocks and cheerleaders who usually would amount to nothing after graduation somehow ended up running the US government.

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Netpol @netpol.org · 3h

Date for your diary: United Families and Friends Campaign Annual Remembrance Procession

🗓️ Saturday 25 October
📍 Trafalgar Square,
🕕 12 noon

No more deaths in custody. United Families and Friends Campaign Annual Remembrance Procession. Saturday 25 October 2025. Trafalgar Square, 12 noon

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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 1d

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artofstumbling.bsky.social @artofstumbling.bsky.social · 3d

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artofstumbling.bsky.social @artofstumbling.bsky.social · 3d

Demand the Impossible - from Common/Wealth Theatre at the Corn Exchange Newport. Incredibly powerful and well-researched interactive experience showing the effect of police harassment on people's lives. Immense talent. I will just say go and see it if you get the chance

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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 1d

★★★ Review: Demand the Impossible – Visceral gig-theatre exploring protest and police injustice.

Read The Stage's review 👇

Demand the Impossible at the Corn Exchange, Newport: frenetic hour of theatre

Read our review of Demand the Impossible at the Corn Exchange, Newport: visceral gig-theatre exploring protest and police injustice

www.thestage.co.uk

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 1d

If the state wants to render us passive and hopeless, Common/Wealth are having none of it. They're asking you, the audience, to wake up, feel it in your bones, and maybe — just maybe — demand the impossible, too ✍️Adam Johannes wp.me/p8Mk4U-16TY

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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 1d

“At a time when legitimate protest (and repeated protest) is increasingly criminalised, the mere affirmation of activism feels significant, dramatised or not. This is potent and urgent theatre.” - Guardian
Demand the Impossible.
On this week, Newport Corn Exchg,
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

Demand the Impossible review – powerful punk rage at injustices of police violence and spycops scandal

Everyday oppression is explored through the narratives of a Black Lives Matter activist, a blacklisted construction worker and an environmental campaigner

www.theguardian.com

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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t threaten us with a good time you absolute roaster

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

😂

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, but, the culture warriors want to defend culture that has never actually existed - not actual culture that you can study.
Best not, therefore, to have people who know too much about actual real life culture.

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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 1d

Worst thing is that UK Vice Chancellors are already on board with this kind of gross crap, choosing to cut existing arts, social sciences, and humanities programmes back to the bone even before the politicians (of whichever party) come for them.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 2d

Also, buy his excellent book which will again be on the compulsory reading for my unit on the resurgence of reactionary politics (and what to do about it)

www.calton-books.co.uk/books/antifa...

ANTIFA - The AntiFascist Handbook

FOR A UNITED WORKING CLASS

www.calton-books.co.uk

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 2d

We're ready for Starbucks to come back to the table and finish finalizing our union contracts. A single day's sales would settle contracts with 12,000 workers! Starbucks calls us "partners" - it's time they start treating us as such, or else we'll be leading our stores on strike!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Tips For Making Friends As An Adult https://theonion.com/tips-for-making-friends-as-an-adult/

Tips For Making Friends As An Adult
Start calling your parents by their first names.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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